19 Jul
2002
19 Jul
'02
4:33 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:19:14PM -0400, Toal, Dave wrote:
What I saw from the first attempt was no response to ping, on either side, even after doing ifconfig down/up of the e9b nic.
ARPs do timeout[1]. Make sure you delete ARPs both on hosts and switches -- some of the beasts do ARP caching, which may either be good or bad. Oh, make sure you (or your network manager) did not make the network supersecure by entering static ARP entries on switch ports.
p.
[1] I know, they should get overwritten with a new entry on the switch.